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Jonathan Jacob Meijer, the Dutch musician accused of fathering more than 550 children, has been summoned to court amid accusations his \u201cprolific\u201d donations increase the \u201crisk of accidental incest.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meijer, who is from The Hague, Netherlands, was blacklisted in 2017 after the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology warned he had fathered 102 children via ten different clinics in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old, who is described by The New York Times as a \u201cserial sperm donor\u201d was, however, said to have continued to offer his services through websites and social media platforms.<\/p>\n
Donorkind Foundation, a sperm clinic, is suing the musician for \u201cviolating the agreement\u201d with clinics and acting in a way that is \u201cdangerous to the mental health\u201d of donor children.<\/p>\n
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His behavior was also said to have increased the children\u2019s risk of \u201cinbreeding, incest or psychological problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Donorkind wants a court to order Meijer to stop donating and to find out which clinics he has donated to.<\/p>\n
The musician is accused of misleading hundreds of women by telling them he would only help conceive a maximum of 25 children.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBy preferring his reproductive urge, the donor is acting unlawfully. This behavior is dangerous for the mental well-being and health of donor children,\u201d Mark de Hek, Donorkind\u2019s lawyer, said.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019In addition, he violates the agreements with the clinics and with the prospective parents, because they trusted his promise that he would father a maximum of 25 children.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his part, Ties van der Meer, the Donorkind Foundation chairman, said: \u201cWe are taking action against this man because the government is doing nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has a global reach via the internet and he does business with large, international sperm banks.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Eva, a Dutch woman who had a child with Meijer in 2018, is also suing the musician.<\/p>\n
She said Meijer needs to be stopped. Eva added that going to court is her \u201conly option to protect my child.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I had known he had already fathered more than 100 children I would never have chosen him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I think about the consequences this could have for my child I am sick to my stomach. Many mothers have told him he needs to stop, but nothing helps.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo going to court is the only option I have to protect my child.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Telegraph, Donorkind said the musician, who is on a donation blacklist in the Netherlands, has continued to donate abroad.<\/p>\n
Meijer is said to have met prospective parents looking for home insemination online and on social media and has shown no signs of changing his behaviour.<\/p>\n
Source: The Cable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jonathan Jacob Meijer, the Dutch musician accused of fathering more than 550 children, has been summoned to court amid accusations his \u201cprolific\u201d donations increase the \u201crisk of accidental incest.\u201d Meijer, who is from The Hague, Netherlands, was blacklisted in 2017 after the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology warned he had fathered 102 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n